Sunday, January 10, 2010

A Spectacular Show

Hobart entered 2010 with incredible style. The day was, apparently, the hottest ever recorded in December (about 37 degrees Celcius, which is quite reasonable by the standards of most other Australian cities) and big storm clouds started to gather around 9pm. The lightening started around 10pm, and it lasted right through the midnight celebrations. David got some video from our living room window, but these pictures were assembled from various photographers by the husband of a colleague at work. I don’t know who to credit, but they were being emailed around as part of a slideshow so I think it’s OK to post them here as well. Enjoy!

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For the record, David and I live in a waterfront apartment about 1/2 kilometre from the well-lit tower on the left (the Wrest Point casino), so we had pretty good seats for the show.

4 comments:

AareneX said...

Wow! Stay indoors and pop up a bunch of popcorn, huh?

Grey Horse Matters said...

Those are amazing pictures and you sure had a great seat for the festivities.

Anonymous said...

amazing@!

Sarah Andrew said...

Spectacular indeed!